June 23, 1997 Betty Shabazz, educator and widow of Malcolm X, died.

Shabazz was born Betty Dean Sanders on May 28, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. After high school, she entered Tuskegee Institute and while in Alabama first encountered racism. As a result, Shabazz moved to New York City and enrolled at the Brooklyn State Hospital School of Nursing where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958. Also in 1958, she married Malcolm X.

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